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Posted: 5/5/2014 10:03:00 AM EDT
| so i hate the conventional scope look. also i hate turning knobs right before i take a shot, or i miss my shot. so would a 4x scope work if i mounted a magnifier infront or behind of the scope? specifically a 3x magnifier ? |
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You hate the conventional scoped look but you think that a scope with a magnifier mounted behind it would look pretty sweet? Anyways, it may work at if you set it at the correct distance behind the scope and do not adjust your magnification (the range of the eye relief varies as you adjust your magnification in most VP scopes) but i personally think this is about the worst idea I have ever heard haha. I wouldn't do it. Also, i don't know if tit will focus and it will probably distort everything.
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| well i did say fixed scope. its a fixed 4x so i cant really mess with magnification... but the only reason its plausible is because i personally would rather just flip the magnifier in front of a 4x to reach 7x, or something like that. instead of fumbling with knobs and losing my target. also it would negate a re zeroing process am i wrong? i would use this on a 20" .308 with the realization that im not shooting 1k. |
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It might work... But it would be finicky and eye relief would be painfully unforgiving. Focus would be an issue as well. Prohibitively difficult to set up on a rifle.
As a practical prohibition... The fixed power scope would need be set farther forward, making it difficult at best to get correct eye relief when firing using it alone. The reticle would be harder to use... Precision would not be enhanced much because of the reticle growing. Also the fact that a 3x magnifyer behind a 4x scope would actually give you closer to 16x final I do believe. |
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Yes you could do it. Just like you can use a pair of binoculars in front of a 35mm camera lens as telephoto (yea right...& I have done it).
It can be done; BUT IT IS NOT practical. Your magnifier would have to be placed in the same place as your eye would be (eye relief of scope). Like how are you going to do that and keep it out of the way for 4x shooting? It would be a very small optical bubble view and hard to keep lined up. Get the right tool for the job... in this case it is either a fixed power or a V-power and that cat-tail thing. |
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I seriously don't think it works guys.... someone has to have an ACOG and a 3x laying around. Can someone try it... i think everything ends up looking fucked up but that is IIRC. I do, and could. But this is ridiculous.... Buy a scope and stop the weird shit. |
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so i hate the conventional scope look. also i hate turning knobs right before i take a shot, or i miss my shot. so would a 4x scope work if i mounted a magnifier infront or behind of the scope? specifically a 3x magnifier ? Yes - you would have a 12X fixed scope. You would not have a 4X-12X variable, as when you flipped the magnifier out of the way, the scope eye relief would be too far away to use it. Unless - you used a 4X Long Eye Relief (LER) scope, like a Scout or Pistol scope, and then added a 3X magnifier. Get a variable. Practice using the knob. Post knob practice video in GD w/ imaginative thread title. |
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